.hack Part 2: Mutation

Go over to the cliff just off the bridge on the way to the Grunty
Shop in Theta server. It will be on the right side of the cliff if
you were to face the Grunty Shop. Your shadow will show your legs
right side up on the side of the cliff instead of your head. This
appears this way for all characters. In Delta server, the end of the
bridge on one side shows your legs right side up for all characters.

When you Data Drain, do not use it as often as you would have in
.hack: Infection. The viral infection has spread almost twice as
fast and is much more dangerous to Kite. To lower your viral
infection significantly, go to an area in Delta server, then defeat
all the monsters in the dungeon and field. *** This also helps in
Gott statues, treasure boxes, crates, skeletons, all field portals
opened, and all dungeon portals opened for the Book Of Ryus.

You can do this at any time, but you may want to do it early. Go to
Delta:Hidden, Forbidden, Holy Ground. This is the same place from
.hack: Infection that BlackRose invites you to, and the 1st place
you met Balmung. When you go through the doors, an intermission
sequence will begin and you will see a meeting with the characters
from .Hack//Sign. It is also the same scene from .Hack//Sign where
Mimiru and Bear think Tsukasa is a girl. When the scene finishes,
you will receive M:Wavemaster to your Key Items and a Golden Grunty
under the Books section of your items. The Golden Grunty raises your
Max HP by 30 and the M:Wavemaster is a line that Tsukasa says from
the anime.

After the scene with Subaru, Silver Knight, Bear, Mimiru, and BT,
you will see another scene from .Hack//Sign. This time, it is the
meeting between Crim and Sora. After the scene, you will get the
M:Long Arm added to your Key Items and another Silver Grunty which
raises your Max SP by 15. You can see the 1st scene at the
beginning of the game, but you have to wait until you finish other
events before going back to see more.

If you go back to Delta: Hidden, Forbidden, Holy Ground after the
scene with Sora and BT, you will see another scene from .Hack//Sign.
This time it is the meeting between Subaru, Silver Knight, Bear,
Mimiru, and BT concerning Tsukasa not being able to log out of "The
World." After the scene, you will receive M:Heavy Axeman and another
Golden Grunty which raises you Max HP by 30.

At one point, you will get an email from Aura that is as always
garbled, but she will mention Cubia in it and Kite will mention the
name. immediately stock up on magic scrolls , spells, and magic
armors . You will be forced to take Mistral along for this, but this
is a good thing. Your other character should be a powerhouse such as
Blackrose, Gardenia, or Piros. When you reach the bottom of the
dungeon, you will be attacked by Cubia. The actual boss here will be
Cubia Core, which will spawn other variations of Cores such as Repth
Core. This should be your 1st priority. The Repth Core holds 1,000
HP. This must be killed 1st or it will heal Cubia for 400 Hp at a
time. After you kill it, ignore the others and order your companions
to use magic on the Cubia Core (which holds 5,000 HP). After about
1000 damage it will launch a powerful attack. You should immediately
heal yourself, then order your companions to attack the Repth Core
again with physical attacks this time. Then once again, attack Cubia
Core . You will need to repeat this multiple times. Remember to
alternate between physical and magical attacks after he launches a
powerful attack.

Go to the Chaos Gate at the 3rd server and choose to write a new
keyword. The 1st 2 words can be anything, and for the last word
enter "sea of sand". You will always get a power up spring and the
weather will always be sunny. Take a weapon and power up it until it
cannot be more powerful. *** It is recommended that you to take a
high level keyword, like 42 and above, and that you have the Grunty
Flute to avoid encounters with very powerful monsters.

After you defeat Magus (the last enemy), you will get 2 e-mails
from RIKA@Bandai.com. One just tells you that you can convert your
game data into the next .hack. The other one gives you a hidden
dungeon. Restock on healing items and Resurrects when you log on and
give your characters the strongest armor and weapons you have. Mia
and Wiseman also are finally able to join your party. Take Wiseman
(Elk or Mistral will do just fine) and sum1 with good attacks.
Give Wiseman better armor (something that lets him cast Ola Repth
and Rip Maen recommended) and a good weapon (Great Elite or Rod of
Pattern recommended). After fully prepared, go to Theta: Bitter,
Fantasy, Mirror World. Use the Virus Core U you received earlier to
hack the Gate. The dungeon is level 50; make sure everyone is at a
high level. When you reach the door with the purple flame, a Boss is
behind it. Heal your characters and recover their SP. Head to the
magic portal and you will fight Agnomen. Angolmere is an easy Boss
if you know the correct tactics. Have Kite attack a couple of times
and retreat so the Boss will not hit you. Send your attacker to
attack and use skills. He or she will most likely get killed
frequently; use Resurrects to revive them. Set Wiseman to First Aid
and occasionally switch him to use magic. Angolmere only attacks one
character at a time. This lets you attack him as he is barraging
your other character. Keep Wiseman healing, and when he gets low,
use a Mage's Soul on him. When Angolmere gets a little more than
halfway past his health, he Protect Breaks. Use Data Drain and you
will receive the Crimson Raid Twin Blade weapon. Also, after you
kill the Death Head that he becomes after Data Drain, you receive
the Lucky Shoes which allows the casting of Rig Saem and Rig Gaem.

In the OVA that comes with the game, there is a hidden Keyword shown
while Mai is on the computer: Lambda: Capricious, Unending,
Corridor. When you reach the statue of Gott at the end of the
dungeon, you will get Chinese Food. Go back to the Root Town and
look for a player named Annri. You can trade the Chinese Food for a
Super Wufei (a very powerful spear for either Nuke Usagimaru or
Gardenia).

Use the following trick to get certain items needed for trade (for
example, Cooked Bile). Remember a place that has the item and go
there. Once you get to a place with a lot of jars or eggs/small eggs
(usually a treasure box area), break everything. If you get the
desired item, exit then immediately return. The jars or eggs/small
eggs have been restored. Break everything again. *** This does not
mean you will get the desired item every time. Keep repeating the
process until you have enough of those items to trade. You will get
items that are useful, such as Healing Potions, Healing Drinks,
Antidotes, Resurrects, and Restoratives. This is especially useful
just before Bosses. Also, since it is free you will not want waste
any money.

It is much easier if you have a Wavemaster in your party, whether it
is Elk, Wiseman, or sum1 else; and also have a heavy blade
person. This helps very much. Also keep your other members leveled
up with you because you have to use them at times.

Keep powering up your Wavemasters so that you can just let them do
all the work. None of them will get hurt. Make sure to have a lot of
Artisan's Souls.

When you are going out to go to fields, choose Blackrose and Mistral
in your party. They are very useful. Make sure they have strong
weapons from .hack Part 1: Infection. Have Mistral equip Starstrom
or Storm whatever. She will have Summonings 1 and 2 of Earth
Yarthkins and level 2 Vulcan Fire. Also find an armor for her that
has Ola Repth. It recovers 400 HP with anyone near the target she is
healing. When in battle, have Mistral use the First Aid command and
if you have to everyone First Aid.

Go to the weapons shop in root town Lambda - L, Cultural City
Carmina Gadelica and buy one Spiral Edge for 700 GP. Each time you
encounter a Spring Of Myst, throw in the Spiral Edge. Monsieur will
tell you that "With a weapon of this level, there is nothing I can
do". He will give you back the Spiral Edge plus one Golden Axe and
one Silver Axe every time. *** This trick works with any "rare"
weapon thrown in the Spring Of Myst.

If you completed .hack Part 1: Infection and finished the OVA
Keyword dungeons you should have an Ice Bar. If not, go to Delta:
Hideous, Organ Market, Scaffold, and when you reach the Statue of
Gott you will receive the Ice Bar. Go to the Root Town and look for
a player named Panta. You trade the Ice Bar to him for a Level 38
Key Axe.

Keep going out of battle mode and the Goblin will stop and wait.
Now, run towards him and he will run straight at you. Now, all you
have to do is slash him. Keep doing this and you will win easily.
Sometimes if you run from him, he will chase you. If this happens,
do a quick turn around and slash him, then run out of battle mode to
make him stop.

After you defeat Magus (the last Boss), the message board gets
updated and you are challenged to another round of Goblin Tag. Go to
the Root Town and look for a player named Koji. Trade him whatever
you can for a Beast's Bane. Go to Lambda: Detestable, Vengeful, Gate
and you will start the fight with Martina R. You will notice that
physical attacks do very little, if you can even hit her, and no
magic can hurt her. Use the Beast's Bane and it will lower her Magic
Defense significantly. If you have the Fishskin Twin Blade weapon
(obtained by Data Draining the Squidpod enemy) you can use Merrows.
Using Merrows one time should knock about 1,000 HP off of Martina.
Use it a 2nd time to finish her off. After the battle, Martina
gives you the Imp's Praises Key Item. Once again, equip all the
Goblin Armor on Kite and he will be able to summon level 2 Goblins.

You can also buy the Beast's Bane in the Delta and Theta servers,
which makes it easier than searching for Koji.

Put in a random keyword until you find a significantly higher level
than yours (use Kite only) and make sure what element it is. Once
you reach the server, use Speed Scrolls, Warrior Bloods, etc., and
items such as Burning Oil, Well Water, or magics to raise element
damage. Use a Hermit Blood on Kite and raise his element damage with
an item/magic (whichever element is needed). Encounter an enemy with
the opposite element and you
will do heavy damage. After you level up, bring your other
characters to the stage. You will notice that they also grew in
levels by a bit. Use the same strategy (if needed) and raise their
level as well.

You can defeat a House Golem by having a Wavemaster repeatedly use a
level 2 Tornado skill (element does not matter); or go to the Delta
or Theta servers and buy lots of Warrior Banes. Use it on the House
Golem and he will no longer be physical tolerant. *** Always have
a Wavemaster and/or lots of healing potions, Mage's Souls, and
Resurrects.

When you are Grunty racing, make sure you save any progress you made
in the game. First, get a lot of practice by not worrying about
wasting all your money. Now, reset the game without saving to get
your money back. Do not save if you place first. If you wait until
you get very good, 1st will be easy. Instead, try to place a half
to one 2nd past 2nd place so that you can get up to 3
Silver Gruntys. Do the same thing for 1st place to get up to 3
Golden Gruntys.

When in a field and you are riding a Grunty, look at its shadow. It
should look completely different from the Grunty itself.
Information in this section was contributed by ssgokugold7.
Grunty the Kid 2 on the Lambda server looks different when you look
at his shadow. He has large bull-like horns when you view his
shadow.

Look at the shadows of the Grunties in both Theta and Lambda
servers. You can see a Grunty shadow with horns and you on top. This
happens with both the stray Grunties and the Grunties that you own.

Visit your Grunty to get good weapons that might help. Just go to
Lamda or the 1st place where you raised your own Grunty then talk
and trade.

First, get a powerful weapon that you can hold. Unequip it and go to
a high level area. Go to a stream and throw the weapon in there. You
will either get a more powerful weapon or your original weapon back
and a golden and silver axe. If it does not happens, go to a higher
level area with a stream.

If you Data Drain monsters, you can either get Virus Cores or
weapons/armor. Most high level monsters have very rare weapons and
strong armor. Most of these monsters are above level 45; be careful
when fighting them. If you do not receive the item, keep Data
Draining that monster. However, do not Data Drain too much where you
are in danger of system crashing.

The DVD that is included with the game has a secret section. It
reveals secrets in the game. Highlight the gallery of pictures, then
press Right. The pointer will disappear. Press X or Enter, then
scroll right and left between secrets one to ten.

Hidden, Forbidden, Holy Ground after the
scene with Tsukasa, Bear, and Mimiru, you will see another scene
from .Hack//Sign, where Sora asks for BT's member address. After the
scene concludes, you will receive M:Twin Blade for your Key Items
and a Silver Grunty which raises your Max SP by 15.

If you are lucky enough, you will get a message on the board for
Mimiru and Bear. It will then say a place where they will meet. At
the end of the dungeon, you will see Mimiru actually there (not in
memory fragment form). She will then give you heavy blade called
Mimiru's Sword before leaving.

If you buy two spiral edges at the ^ server go to were natsume is at the dongen enter and right away a little cut sence about her saying you're lucky say give you keep one whaile one is givin away and you get something better in return natsume's member adress.